[Wikipedia-l] Categories: An implementation

[Ray Saintonge]

Neil Harris wrote:

> Magnus,
>
> My comments were not meant to criticise categories, or your attempts 
> to make an implementation.  I'm a proponent of categories: I think 
> they can serve useful purposes. I'm also grateful you are actually 
> exploring the problem space, instead of just talking about it like the 
> rest of us.

Ditto!  But I can plead technical incompetence :-)

> I think the [[List of XXX topics]] categories are very useful, and 
> having a pointer from the category list to the article is the natural 
> way to do it: it also handles the case of making a category for a 
> non-existent article.

Categories can be assigned to lists as well.  I also see no way that we 
will ever do away with lists completely.  They still serve a useful 
function for highlighting what articles are still wanted.

Ec